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Pocket watch movement with cap, dial and two hands. Full-plate fusee movement, signed and numbered, with cap signed ‘YATES PATENTEE’, with lever escapement and compensation balance beating half-seconds. The balance cock foot is marked ‘PATENT’.

The movement has a white enamel dial, signed ‘YATES PATENTEE’, with Roman numerals and steel spade and poker hands, and a subsidiary seconds dial below centre, with its hand missing.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0481
Collection: Timekeeping
Type: Pocket watch movement
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Yates, T
Date made: circa 1850
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Foulkes Collection
Measurements: Overall: 44 x 43 x 14 mm